G'day wce,

where there's a will there's a way and that's an almighty motivator.
It's in good nick all round. Look at the tyre treads.Victa Self propelled rear wheels are sought after as they cost around $90 each ordered new.

Did you pay much for it? It looks to be the first of the silver decked models that came out in 1973. Interesting to see it retains the green coloured fuel tank despite new colour scheme, unless that was scavenged off a first version.

Those autodrives are a bit of a.high maintainance item. The gearbox requires a specific lubricant for those models over the later gearbox used on Victa self propelled models.

If you have no luck getting it to run well, you could make some money parting it out. The cover and rear wheels alone would get you in front.


Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!